Twerking girl on fire video a Jimmy Kimmel hoax

It’s been a minute, but remember that video of the biggest twerking fail in the recorded history of twerk? Girl starts booty poppin’, flips her act upside down, then falls on a glass table set with candles and catches fire? Crazy stuff.

Crazy, but totally fake.

Jimmy Kimmel hired a stuntwoman, Daphne Avalon, who was sworn to secrecy until the big reveal Monday night, to pull it all off. They shot the video a couple months ago, then posted it this month to YouTube, where it racked up more than 9 million views within a week.

“You know, we got a lot of interview requests sent through our YouTube channel,” Kimmel said on his late-night show. “We didn’t respond to any of them … even though the video was fake, that did not stop hundreds of news outlets from showing it. some people even blamed Miley Cyrus, as if this was her fault.”

He didn’t tweet it, share it, talk about it or do anything to promote it except posting it online.

“We didn’t send it to any TV stations, I didn’t tweet it, we didn’t put it on any news websites, we put it on YouTube and let the magic happen,” he says.

Kimmel posits that the stunt might put an end to twerking once and for all. Probably not. But it should remind the literally hundreds of major news media that ran with the story to think twice before passing off a random unverified video clip as the real deal.